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footnote

 noun
     
Related topics: Newspapers, Publishing
foot‧note [countable]
1TCN a note at the bottom of the page in a book, which gives more information about something
2 a piece of additional information that is not very important but is interesting or helps you understand something
footnote to
There was an interesting footnote to the story.
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